Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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It must on the contrary be named.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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